Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PedroC6586/Archive

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Four numbers are at the end of both of their usernames. All four of their edits have been to promote Stortinget station to GA, which Pedro nominated. I'm anticipating that it's possible there is another sockmaster behind all of this (is there a sockpuppeteer who specialises in GA reviews?), so requesting CheckUser to rule out/in that possibility. Pedro similarly has made very brief GA reviews: see Talk:Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign/GA1, Talk:North–South Commuter Railway/GA1, and Talk:Cedar Hill Yard/GA1. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:53, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

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 * Possible WP:DUCK. Brothers nom'd Nationaltheatret metro station and Pedro approved it. Looking at Pedro's talk page shows Brothers approving noms Pedro made. ― Blaze The WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 20:42, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Both users exhibit the same behaviour in this revision and this revision. Very likely a WP:DUCK. Jurtaa (talk) 20:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * To elaborate on Nationaltheatret metro station, PedroC6586 made a series of edits on September 26, a small edit on September 28, and then a final clean-up edit at 19:13 on September 30. Three minutes later at 19:16, Brothers1837 nominated the article, manually reverted, and then renominated it at 19:17, and within three minutes of that, Pedro opened the review (before it was listed at WP:GAN): the bot updated the GA nominee template to reflect the newly opened review at 19:20. Pedro then proceeded to pass the article that Pedro had worked on, a clear conflict of interest and not allowed at GAN, at 19:24, and placed the GA template on the article at 19:25. It is not possible that a proper GA review could have been done in a few minutes. This looks like a very loudly quacking WP:DUCK to me. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:10, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
 
 * - this looks very much like someone trying to pass their own GA, but I suppose it's worth checking to make sure that it's not just a miraculous coincidence, and to verify that there are no others since the consequences will differ depending on whether or not it's a one-off. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 07:20, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * - ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:36, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * is very.
 * Also found:


 * As also.
 * ~TNT (she/they • talk) 03:39, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, TNT. The discovery of two sleeper accounts, which I'm confident are related because they were created at the same time as Brothers1837, is pretty concerning. On the other hand, I am inclined to be somewhat lenient because this is a first offense and because PedroC6586 seems to have made constructive edits prior to the socking. - please indef Brothers1837, CocosVei and CocosVei9484, and block PedroC6586 for two weeks. Thanks to  for dealing with the invalid GA reviews. Spicy (talk) 07:43, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * , closing. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:45, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Also noting that I believe that if they sock again, the next block should be indefinite. --Blablubbs (talk) 08:49, 2 October 2021 (UTC)